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...aggressive inquisition on the Iran-contra affair. Former Texas Senator John Tower, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Maine Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie reached their conclusions with resounding unanimity after taking testimony from some 80 witnesses and reviewing thousands of documents, including a treasure trove of NSC computer messages notable for, among other things, their frequent misspellings...
Still, for all the worldwide activity in the deep, last week nothing could compete for attention with the trove of photographs, videotape and lore accumulated during the Titanic mission. Each of Alvin's 100-ft.-per-minute descents from the mother ship Atlantis II required 2 1/2 hours, during which Ballard tried to relax by listening to the recorded music of Edvard Grieg. On the first dive, the submersible, carrying J.J. down with it, approached the Titanic's 60-ft.-high starboard midsection. "That was the first thing we came in on," recalls Ballard. "We were putting our nose right...
Whether or not Anders is successful, the fossil trove is already providing fresh insights about the evolution of life on earth. Says Shubin: "The find is like a Rosetta stone. This period was one of tremendous geological upheaval. The continents were beginning to split apart, and there was a turnover among the animals. The modern world was basically set during this time...
California's obsession with campaign cash is compounded by the growth of so- called transfers, money controlled by legislative leaders and doled out to loyal supporters. Though both parties employ the system, by far the biggest transfers trove belongs to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, a Democrat, who raised $4.2 million in contributions that he could use in his own or other 1984 campaigns. Brown pumped nearly $1.2 million of that bundle into 14 other races, making the powerful speaker California's largest single political contributor. "It's an absolute arms race," admits Brown, who only last December picked...
...tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...